Course Details
Country:
United Kingdom
Institution:
University of York
Course Title:
Lost in a Book: Loss & Being Lost in Early Modern Texts
Course Number:
ENG00086H
Course Description:
From shipwrecks to pirates, from the discovery of unknown lands to reunions with long-lost lovers, the state of being lost has long vexed protagonists and inspired authors. In this module, we’ll explore loss and being lost as fundamental conditions of both the production, and interpretation, of narrative in the Renaissance. Focusing especially on romance, that nebulous and unwieldy form, we’ll consider what the fictional representation of ‘wrong turns’ (literal and metaphorical) tells us about early modern story-telling, ethics, and New World exploration. We’ll therefore contextualize our examination of early modern literary texts with readings from historical accounts of voyages and cross-cultural encounters and explore how being lost would have been both a familiar literary convention inherited from the ancient and medieval worlds and a condition made newly meaningful in light of expansive global discoveries. We’ll be attentive too to our own position as readers lost – in good ways and
Language:
English
Approved Equivalent:
Pending For Approval
Course URL:
https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/ENG00086H/latest
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